With just over a month to go before the closing of submission of abstracts to the ICN Congress we are pleased to say that abstracts submissions have been coming in greater numbers than anticipated. We encourage you to go to http://www.icn2013.ch/en/abstracts to ensure you submit your abstract before the closing deadline on 14 September 2012.  We take this opportunity to remind you that registration for the ICN Congress opens on the same date - 14 September 2012.  The Congress will feature many dynamic speakers including Her Royal Highness Princess Muna Al-Hussein, who will deliver the keynote address on Equity and Access to Health Care, and Anne Marie Rafferty, who will present the Virginia Henderson lecture.  The Congress will once again feature a Student Nurses Assembly (18 May 2013) and the Florence Nightingale International Foundation Luncheon (21 May 2013).  For more information on the ICN Congress to be held in Melbourne, Australia 18-23 May 2013, please go to www.icn2013.ch